Basque in the Contemporary World: Migration, Identity and Globalization Conference in Reno, Nevada Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BAQ101

Scope and Contents

The collection compiles documentation, programs, press news, papers given at the conference, abstracts of those papers, and a list of presenters at the international conference entitled “Basques in the Contemporary World: Migration, Identity, and Globalization” hosted in the summer of 1998 at the University of Nevada, Reno hosted and attended by nearly eighty scholars.

Dates

  • 6-9 July, 1998

Creator

Biographical / Historical

In the summer of 1998, the University of Nevada, Reno hosted an international symposium entitled “Basques in the Contemporary World: Migration, Identity, and Globalization”, attended by nearly eighty scholars. Selected papers from the symposium are now available in three volumes published in the Occasional Papers Series of the Basque Studies Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

There are fourteen essays on such varied topics as the origin theories of the Basque language and its viability in the contemporary world, literature, gender studies, rock music and the bertsolaritza, cinema, sports, Bilbao and the Guggenheim Museum and Basque identity in cyberspace.

Source:

CENTER FOR BASQUE STUDIES [online]: https://basquebooks.com/products/basque-cultural-studies-hardcover

Extent

1.28 Cubic Feet (3 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Related Names

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
A Guide to the Basque in the Contemporary World: Migration, Identity and Globalization Conference in Reno, Nevada 6-9 July 1998 Collection
Status
In Progress
Author
Chris Bruce
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Physical Storage Information

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the University of Nevada, Reno. Jon Bilbao Basque Library Repository

https://library.unr.edu/Basque
Contact:
1664 N. Virginia St.
Reno Nevada 89557-0322 USA
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